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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.

Abraham Verghese

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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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